Does Life has purpose?
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Ha good one MikeyDB
We must ask questions because we are driven to 'know' the world around us. It is not arrogant.
It would be arrogant in my opinion to assume our answers apply to all.
The best we can do is share what we believe to be an answer good enough for us. Even then retain the ability to morph and change our opinions - and not be rigid in believing what we know to the truth will remain always truth. The arrogance part would be expecting others to agree or believe what we do.
The Answer Is, Yes!
The purpose of life is to perpetuate our species through intercourse, test tubes, Fertilisation, also spelt fertilization (also known as conception, fecundation and syngamy), is fusion of gametes to form a new organism of the same species. In animals, the process involves a sperm fusing with an ovum, which eventually leads to the development of an embryo. Depending on the animal species, the process can occur within the body of the female in internal fertilisation, or outside in the case of external fertilisation.
The entire process of development of new individuals is called procreation, the act of species reproduction, any means possible.
We go to sporting events, war, work, lie, cheat and steal to fill the gaps between doing so and living out the rest of our days.
The purpose of life is to perpetuate our species through intercourse, test tubes, Fertilisation, also spelt fertilization (also known as conception, fecundation and syngamy), is fusion of gametes to form a new organism of the same species. In animals, the process involves a sperm fusing with an ovum, which eventually leads to the development of an embryo. Depending on the animal species, the process can occur within the body of the female in internal fertilisation, or outside in the case of external fertilisation.
The entire process of development of new individuals is called procreation, the act of species reproduction, any means possible.
We go to sporting events, war, work, lie, cheat and steal to fill the gaps between doing so and living out the rest of our days.
There are many people who will give you the purpose of life; they will tell you what the sacred books say. Clever people will go on inventing what the purpose of life is. The political group will have one purpose, the religious group will have another purpose, and so on and on. So, what is the purpose of life when you yourself are confused? When I am confused, I ask you this question, "What is the purpose of life?" because I hope that through this confusion, I shall find an answer. How can I find a true answer when I am confused? Do you understand? If I am confused, I can only receive an answer that is also confused. If my mind is confused, if my mind is disturbed, if my mind is not beautiful, quiet, whatever answer I receive will be through this screen of confusion, anxiety, and fear; therefore, the answer will be perverted. So, what is important is not to ask, "What is the purpose of life, of existence?" but to clear the confusion that is within you. It is like a blind man who asks, "What is light?" If I tell him what light is, he will listen according to his blindness, according to his darkness; but suppose he is able to see, then he will never ask the question, "What is light?" It is there.Similarly, if you can clarify the confusion within yourself, then you will find what the purpose of life is; you will not have to ask, you will not have to look for it; all that you have to do is to be FREE from those causes which bring about confusion.
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Machines have a purpose.
Life doesn't.
Life acts first without purpose except to survive. Then only a consciousness wonders why.
Wondering why happens first.
And answers are only for the ones who believe in those answers.
This is your LOL-ZEN-KODAK MOMENT.
Life doesn't.
Life acts first without purpose except to survive. Then only a consciousness wonders why.
Wondering why happens first.
And answers are only for the ones who believe in those answers.
This is your LOL-ZEN-KODAK MOMENT.
JMMOYER :
Machines have a purpose.
Life doesn't.
Life acts first without purpose except to survive. Then only a consciousness wonders why.
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Good poste jimmoyer.Love your reality . By the way ,don't forget to oil your bra.....(oops,I was going to say brain ,Sorry) machine.
Machines have a purpose.
Life doesn't.
Life acts first without purpose except to survive. Then only a consciousness wonders why.
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Good poste jimmoyer.Love your reality . By the way ,don't forget to oil your bra.....(oops,I was going to say brain ,Sorry) machine.
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Machines have a purpose.
Life doesn't.
Life acts first without purpose except to survive. Then only a consciousness wonders why.
Wondering why happens first.
And answers are only for the ones who believe in those answers.
Watch a penguin documentary, and wonder what purpose ???
Or what purpose to a loved one dying ?
Bloody penguin just walked by.
On the Discovery Channel.
Poor thing.
Sturdy soldier.
Life doesn't.
Life acts first without purpose except to survive. Then only a consciousness wonders why.
Wondering why happens first.
And answers are only for the ones who believe in those answers.
Watch a penguin documentary, and wonder what purpose ???
Or what purpose to a loved one dying ?
Bloody penguin just walked by.
On the Discovery Channel.
Poor thing.
Sturdy soldier.
Life does have purpose, it's very simple. To survive, and senesce through life. That process includes giving rise to future generations. Without future generations, there is no more life. Now, humans have evolved to a point where we can add new criteria to purpose. We can look back at the lives we lived and evaluate what purpose we have served. Nonetheless, the basic purpose is to eat, grow, produce offspring, and then die.
in essence, life only has a purpose if it was given one. so generally, the life of a human has a purpose only if it were designed with one, so part of your question is "were humans designed or did they happen by accident?" this is an old debate and one we can't expect to get answers to on the forum. More specifically however, an individual's life also as a purpose if the person in question has decided upon a purpose, made a decision to accomplish something with their life.
I'd say on the whole, most lives have purpose due to the fact that most people set out to do certain things with their lives. As for life in general (less sentient forms, and non-sentient forms)... who knows? maybe some of them give themselves purpose in the same way we do, maybe they were designed with purpose, as discussed in my first paragraph. Much harder to decide.
I'm afraid this is a question without an adequate response available. If anyone proves the existance of God then we have our answer.
I'd say on the whole, most lives have purpose due to the fact that most people set out to do certain things with their lives. As for life in general (less sentient forms, and non-sentient forms)... who knows? maybe some of them give themselves purpose in the same way we do, maybe they were designed with purpose, as discussed in my first paragraph. Much harder to decide.
I'm afraid this is a question without an adequate response available. If anyone proves the existance of God then we have our answer.
The existence ofa god or lack thereof has no bearing on purpose. Humans can give themselves many purposes throughout their lives, ie My purpose is to graduate from my university. When referring to life however, every organism has purpose. That is to reproduce. That is the fundamental purpose of every living thing. All of the other bodilly systems and organs work together to ensure that one event will happen, perhaps numerous times if chance is favourable. The drive to fulfill this purpose is hard wired into the instinct. A salmon eats and eats and eats, until the body tells the fish it is time to return to it's home river, to give life to the next generation. The Pacific salmon will die as a result of the rigorous journey. Do they know they are going to die? I don't think so. The whole purpose of that salmon's life is to return and give new life.
Tonington :
We can look back at the lives we lived and evaluate what purpose we have served. Nonetheless, the basic purpose is to eat, grow, produce offspring, and then die._________________________________________
That,s what the body needs in order to function. But the body is not life .The body can produce another "body" which can be "lving" or dead body ( and that's a fact ) but in order to do so the "original body" must be alive. The question of this thread is ..."Does life has a purpose"? ,not the body.Obviously body and Life are two different "things" where the body is the servant of the other.
We can look back at the lives we lived and evaluate what purpose we have served. Nonetheless, the basic purpose is to eat, grow, produce offspring, and then die._________________________________________
That,s what the body needs in order to function. But the body is not life .The body can produce another "body" which can be "lving" or dead body ( and that's a fact ) but in order to do so the "original body" must be alive. The question of this thread is ..."Does life has a purpose"? ,not the body.Obviously body and Life are two different "things" where the body is the servant of the other.
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I think time is better spent reflecting on whether or not OUR life has a purpose. Wondering if "life" in general has a purpose is beyond my capacity for reflection. It's an amusing brain twister and food for the soul to reflect on the purpose of life-in-general, but in the end, I need to find my own purpose.
Dear Friends ,Thanks for all the answers to the title of this thread ..."does life has a purpose". Every one has their own idea as to the correct answer.Myself ,again ,I'm aware that the life its self is the purpose .
That brings a question ,what is life.
That brings a question ,what is life.
The body does not need to produce offspring or die to function. It does need to eat and grow. You are right china, life is the purpose. Life must continue after we are gone, biologically that is our purpose. So only sentient beings have the ability to assign purpose beyond that.
"The existence ofa god or lack thereof has no bearing on purpose. Humans can give themselves many purposes throughout their lives,"
Tonington, if you had read the rest of my post you would have realised I had said exactly the same thing. what i mean is the question can be taken both ways. it can be taken as "do you give yourself a purpoise" or "was there a purpose even before we started making them up"
Tonington, if you had read the rest of my post you would have realised I had said exactly the same thing. what i mean is the question can be taken both ways. it can be taken as "do you give yourself a purpoise" or "was there a purpose even before we started making them up"
I realize that, my post before that said the same thing, we assign purpose now. Not because we were designed that way, more because of the complicated interactions which yielded sentient life forms. There is new research pointing to the interaction between viruses and primitive bacteria, as the starting point of evolution. Viruses have long been classified as non-living, but the discovery of a new virus, Mimivirus is lending creedence to earlier theories that viruses enetered the cytoplasm of a bacteria, but instead of killing the cell, remained there, replicating itslef, and yielding bacteria with a nucleus. Before this happened life thrived, but was incapable of differentiation. Early life had one purpose, absorb energy, then asexually split to form a sister cell. The new bacteria still had the same purpose, but could now replicate RNA and then DNA, yielding new species. Eventually down the line we come about and poof, suddenly there is a being capable of abstract thought and questioning. We can see the purpose of things all around us. This yields a new question. What is our own purpose. Now we can assign purpose based on tasks which before sentient thought were merely instinct.